The Netherlands will send 300 troops and Patriot air defence missile systems to Poland to defend NATO territory, protect supply routes to Ukraine, and deter Russian aggression. The Patriot systems will operate in Poland, and the accompanying troops will not be deployed to Ukraine. Polish authorities reported that an object that fell in a cornfield in eastern Poland may have been a Russian Shahed drone. The explosion broke windows in several houses in the village of Osiny near the Ukrainian border, with no injuries reported. Germany deployed five Eurofighter aircraft to Poland and sent jets and roughly 270 soldiers to Romania, with two Eurofighters mobilised in response to Russian air strikes and returning without incident.
Brekelmans emphasised that the Patriot systems would be operating in Poland, and the accompanying 300 troops did not mean the Netherlands was putting troops on the ground in Ukraine. Germany deployed five Eurofighter combat aircraft to Poland earlier this month, according to a German air force spokesman cited by Germany's DPA news agency. The Kyiv Independent news outlet reported the fighter jets were deployed ahead of joint Russian-Belarusian military drills.
Germany also sent five Eurofighter jets and an estimated 270 soldiers to Romania, DPA reported on Wednesday. Two of the Eurofighter jets in Romania were mobilised for the first time on Tuesday night, in response to Russian air strikes near Ukraine's border with Romania, DPA said. The jets, which took off from a Romanian military airbase, returned without incident, DPA added.
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